Improve your overall health, feel more energised, productive and perform better in life with a healthy lifestyle.

What you will learn

Stress and depression prevention

How to develop good sleeping habits

Nutrition for health, including why fruit and veg is important and avoiding dysglycaemia

Exercising for health

Looking after your back

Cigarettes and Alcohol

Cancer prevention

Cancer – checking yourself for men and women

Diabetes prevention

Heart disease prevention

Description

Learn how to flourish in life with a healthy lifestyle. Health is not merely the absence of disease. It is about feeling good. With a few simple changes to your exercise, nutrition and stress reduction, your lifestyle could be much improved, reducing the risk of heart disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes. Reduce the risk of mental health issues such as depression. Move better to avoid chronic back pain. Be more productive in work and at home. Learn how to live a healthy lifestyle. Learn how to improve the quality of your life as well as adding years to your life.

Do you know how to eat for optimal health? How much exercise you really need? Do you know what free radicals are, how they can cause cancer and how you can prevent them with the right diet? Learn techniques to help stave of anxiety, depression and mental health issues. Do you sleep well at night and wake up energised every day? If not, this course is for you. Learn how to improve your sleep and why it really matters.

Did you know that back pain is the main reason people are absent from work these days? Learn how to prevent back pain with some easy daily changes to your life. As you get older, your risk of back pain increases. Reduce this risk as early as you can.


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Learn how to check yourself for lumps and bumps which could be breast or testicular cancer and what to do if you think you might have found something.

Risk of everything increases as you age. Reduce that risk now and learn how to live a long and happy life.

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Content

Introduction

Introduction
Contents

Stress and Depression

What is Stress?
Reducing stress with self massage
Stress control techniques – deep breathing
Stress control techniques – Rhythmic exercises
Increasing resilience to stress
Depression
Symptoms of depression
Treating Depression

Good Sleeping Habits

What is Sleep?
Improving your sleep
Improving your sleep continued

Nutrition for Health and Wellbeing

Hydration
Hydration continued
Avoiding dysglycaemia (bouncing blood sugar levels)
Avoiding dysglycaemia continued
Glycaemic Load Table
Fruit and vegetables
Sources of free radicals
Controlling Cholesterol

Exercising for Good Health

The FITT principle
Frequency
Intensity
Intensity continued
Time duration of exercise
Type of Exercise

Preventing Back Pain

Preventing Back Pain
Lifting safely
Sitting properly

Cigarettes and Alcohol

Cigarettes and Alcohol
It’s not just death . . . . . .
Help is at hand
Alcohol
What is safe?
Help is at hand

Cancer

What is cancer?
What is cancer continued
Viral causes of cancer
Environment and cancer
Environment and cancer continued
Clinical Manifestations of Cancer
Exercise and Cancer
Nutrition and Cancer

Checking yourself for cancer: men and women

Breast Cancer
The five steps of a breast exam
The five steps of a breast exam . . . .
The five steps of a breast exam . . . .
The five steps of a breast exam in picture form
Tips on breast self examination
Testicular cancer
Three steps of testicular examination
Testicular examination in picture form
Tips on checking your testes

Diabetes

What is Diabetes?
A Growing problem
Classification of Diabetes
Symptoms of Diabetes
Risk Factors for type 1 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes
Diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
HbA1c: the long term marker
Complications
Risk factors for type 2 diabetes
Modifiable risk factors
Lifestyle interventions – Exercise
Nutrition – Glycaemic index
Glycaemic load
Glycaemic Load Table revisited
Oats!
Cinnamon!
Stimulants!

Heart disease

What is Cardiovascular disease?
Preventing heart disease
Obesity and heart disease
Non-modifiable risk factors
Modifiable risk factors
Atherosclerosis timeline
Lifestyle for prevention of heart disease
Practical Actions

Quiz

Living a Healthy Lifestyle Quiz